Revised Draft 25 September 2016 Randall Tagg
This page serves to reproduce and expand ideas on the home page, with links to further details on plans for Psi*'s operations.
The purpose of Psi* is to bring physics students’ inventiveness to fruition through material and creative support; to foster employer, investor, and community awareness of the potential for innovation by physics students; and to engage physics alumni in using their experience to aid student innovators.
Participants
The core of Psi* will consist of undergraduate physics majors and physics graduate students exploring wider career options. However, Psi* will be broadly inclusive, attracting physics minors and non-majors taking physics courses, pre-college students exposed to physics in or before high-school, and adult learners who are curious about the practical applications of physics. Physics alumni within industry, government labs, and universities will be sought as mentors and co-participants in physics-enabled innovation.
The operation and outcomes of Psi* are determined by its key activities and roles defined below.
ACTIVE STUDENT INNOVATION
1. Excite interest in physics as a source of innovation.
Role: Membership and Communications Coordinator
2. Jump-start and support physics students as innovators.
Role: Student Innovation Coordinator
3. Engage alumni as experts, mentors, sponsors and co-inventors
Role: Alumni Liaison & APS Local Links Coordinator
4. Incubate physics student ventures
Role: Business Incubation Coordinator
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
5. Provide a supporting physical infrastructure
Role: Hyperlab Coordinator
6. Provide a supporting computational infrastructure
Role: Computational and Embedded Systems Coordinator
7. Develop and manage websites and internet-based resources
Role: Website Coordinator
8. Create and support media production facilities
Role: Media Production Coordinator
KNOWLEDGE
9. Foster technical competencies and achievements.
Role: Learning Coordinator for Technical Competencies
10. Develop business know-how.
Role: Learning Coordinator for Business Competencies
11. Cultivate understanding of human needs, desires, and circumstances.
Role: Coordinator for Human-Oriented Design
12. Manage and disseminate knowledge assets.
Role: Knowledge Assets Coordinator
ORGANIZATIONAL ECOSYSTEM
13. Connect with employers, investors, business development centers, and professional societies.
Role: Industry Liaison and Networking Coordinator
14. Integrate programs with the community.
Role: Community Outreach Coordinator
15. Obtain and manage funding.
Role: Financial Coordinator
16. Maintain diversity, integrity, openness, and safety.
Role: Diversity, Integrity and Safety Coordinator
Appendices
Appendix A – Categories of Technical Competencies in Applied Physics and Engineering
See https://sites.google.com/site/inventorsyeara/
Appendix B Categories of Business Competencies